The twilight language explores hidden meanings and synchromystic connections via onomatology (study of names) and toponymy (study of place names). This blog further investigates "name games" and "number coincidences" found in news and history. Examinations are also found in my book The Copycat Effect (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004).

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Close Encounters of the Twinning Kind

Time. Towers. Twins.

Colorado's Chimney Rock was declared by President Barack Obama, on September 21, 2012, a national monument. As Department of the Interior photographs show, Chimney Rock is actually a twin formation.

Stephen King's birthday is on the same date on the calendar. King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. (I've been keenly aware of this since I moved to Portland, Maine in the early 1980s. I was also born in 1947. An early Maine article about me and my books called me "Maine's nonfiction Stephen King." I'm not sure Mr. King appreciated that, but then, I didn't write it. A newspaper reporter did. The newsperson was doing some twinning.)

Shining is a Stephen King movie set in Colorado, and features memorable twins.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (a/k/a Close Encounters or CE3K) is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg and features actors Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey. The movie was released on November 16, 1977. That was quite a year. Many people have made the mistake of placing the movie as having been released before the Dover Demon sightings, which were in April 1977. Debunkers of the sighting infrequently state the Dover Demon was merely a remembrance of the little aliens in that film. But they have their chronology off.

I investigated the Dover Demon case throughout the Spring of 1977; I named it too. Then I assembled a team for the re-interviewing of the eyewitnesses, headed by Walt N. Webb, assistant director of the Hayden Planetarium of Boston's Museum of Science. Due to Walt Webb or Dr. Josef Allen Hynek or both, I was invited to a pre-release preview showing of Close Encounters. We did want to see what the aliens looked like, and compare them to the Dover Demon. The resemblance was close.

What was also startling at the screening was something else. Sitting in front of Walt and me was the actor from one scene in the movie, shown in the photo above. I remarked later how this actor's human features vaguely seemed have been chosen to mirror those of the main alien in the film, presenting a mirror image moment.

One of the other major characters in Close Encounters, surprisingly to all of us back then, is the Devils Tower. The obsessive drawings of and creating of the Devils Tower imagery by the participants in the movie paralleled the actual experiences of the Dover Demon eyewitnesses. Two of the four who saw the Dover Demon kept making drawings of the creature.

The Dover Demon is featured on the cover and in the contents of my forthcoming (August 2013) book Monsters of Massachusetts from Stackpole Books.

I had been reading Vallee's "Messengers of Deception" and looking into abduction phenomena before jumping in just now to see what's new on your blog. It is a subject I hadn't touched in a couple of years, in any significant depth.

It is common misconception that the caretaker's daughters in The Shining were twins. It is an easy assumption to make, but the "Grady girls" were not twins in the Stephen King novel, nor were they intended to be twins in the movie. They were even played by girls of two different ages; 8 and 10.

“In the Final days we will look up in our heavens and witness the return of the two brothers who helped create this world in the birthing time... The twins will be seen in our North Western skies. They will come and visit, flying in their Patuwvotas, or flying shields- to see who still remembered the original teachings... Not far behind the twins will come the Purifier, The Red Katchina (a 'Red Star'), who will bring the Day of Purification... Many will appear to have lost their souls in these final days. So intense will the nature of the changes be that those who are weak in spiritual awareness will go insane, for we are nothing without spirit... Many things will begin to occur that will not make sense, for reality will be shifting back in and out of the dream state... Then we will awaken to the RED DAWN. The sky will be the color of blood, many things will then begin to happen that right now we are not sure of their exact nature. For much of reality will not be as it is now..."

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Investigator of human and animal mysteries since 1960. Swamp Thing character "Coleman Wadsworth" in #4:7 and more in #4:8, is a tribute.
Author of over 35 books, including The Unidentified (1975), Mysterious America (1983/2007), Suicide Clusters (1987), Cryptozoology A to Z (1999), Bigfoot! (2003), The Copycat Effect (2004), and field guides.
Educated in anthropology-zoology at SIU-Carbondale, and psychiatric social work at Simmons College School of Social Work. Began doctoral work in anthropology (Brandeis University) and family violence (UNH). Taught at NE universities (1980 to 2003), while concurrently a senior researcher at the Muskie School (1983 to 1996), before retiring to write, lecture, consult, & open museum. Popular documentary course was taught for 23 semesters; appeared on C2C, The Larry King Show, MonsterQuest, Lost Tapes, In Search Of, and other tv programs.
Loren Coleman is a dedicated father (Caleb, Malcolm, Des), cryptozoologist, media consultant, and baseball fan.